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Administrative Fundamentals 104
intelligence in training exercises to improve individual, collective,
and unit readiness.
Facilitates understanding and use of intelligence in support of the
planning and execution of operations.
Special Staff Officers under Staff Cognizance of the G-2 Officer
G-2 Operations Officer: The G-2 operations officer has primary
responsibility for intelligence support to current and future
operations.
G-2 Plans Officer: The G-2 plans officer has primary responsibility
for intelligence support to the future plans cell.
Intelligence Battalion Commander/Intelligence Support
Coordinator: The intelligence battalion commander is responsible
for planning, directing, collecting, processing, producing, and
disseminating intelligence, and providing CI support to the MEF,
MEF MSCs, subordinate MAGTFs, and other commands as
directed.
o Garrison: In garrison the principal task of the intelligence
battalion commander is to organize, train, and equip
detachments that support MAGTFs or other designated
commands to execute integrated collection, intelligence
analysis, production, and dissemination of intelligence
products.
o Actual Operations: During operations the intelligence
battalion commander is dual-hatted as the ISC, serving
under the direct staff cognizance of the AC/S G-2.The S-3
section, along with the operations center element of the G-
2, form the core of the ISC support effort, with planning,
direction, and command and control conducted within the
intelligence operation center’s (IOC’s) support cell. As the
ISC, the commander is responsible to the AC/S G-2 for the
overall planning and execution of allsource intelligence
operations.
Collection Management/Dissemination Officer: The collection
management/dissemination officer (CM/DO) is sourced from the
intelligence battalion’s S-3 section and is a key subordinate to the
intelligence battalion commander/ISC during operations. The
CM/DO is responsible for formulating detailed intelligence
collection requirements (ICRs) and intelligence dissemination
requirements (IDRs) and tasking and coordinating internal and
external operations to satisfy these. The CM/DO receives validated
PIR and IRs and direction from the ISC, and then plans and
manages the best methods to employ organic and supporting
collection and dissemination resources through the intelligence
collection and dissemination plans. The CM/DO is also responsible
for validating and forwarding national and theater intelligence
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